Senior Reliability Engineer

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Redmond, WA +4 · Reliability Engineering

Senior Reliability Engineer role focused on ensuring the quality and performance of Microsoft's cloud hardware infrastructure, including servers and components. Responsibilities involve supplier management, technical issue resolution, process improvement, and risk management throughout the product lifecycle. Requires a strong background in engineering and quality disciplines, with experience in electronics manufacturing and quality tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Ensuring the quality performance of either products or suppliers.
  2. Work experience with component manufactures and servers manufactures suppliers.
  3. Collaborate with internal counterparts, engineering teams and suppliers to monitor performance, resolve technical issues and drive technical improvements.
  4. Influence x-functional partners and suppliers to ensure KPIs and metrics are met.
  5. Work to enhance quality and yields/metrics, process control, critical issue management, and risk analysis and reduction at both supplier and data center.

Skills

Required

  • Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR 12+ years relevant technical engineering experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of experience in leading large-scale taskforce.
  • 10+ years of working experience in product quality discipline in Electronics Industry.
  • Demonstrated experience as natural leader of cross functional teams in a fast-paced environment is essential.
  • Experience in product quality, reliability, or product engineering for PCB, PCBA and Electronic assembly & Servers.
  • Solid understanding of quality tools such as 8D, CLCA, SPC, Pareto charts, FMEA, GR&R, FAI, CPK, PPAP etc.
  • Familiar with measurements, ability to identify program NUDD, product CTQ & process CTP.
  • Familiar with metrics control, for example FPY, LRR and VLRR
  • Experience at DFM.
  • Deep understanding of PCB, PCBA and server assembly process

What the JD emphasized

  • quality performance
  • technical issues
  • technical improvements
  • quality and yields/metrics
  • quality issues and risks
  • supplier quality management
  • quality standards
  • quality tools